The visit of the delegation of the Japanese Institute for International Policy Studies
On 17 September, the Razumkov Centre hosted a meeting with the representatives of the Institute for International Policy Studies (one of the leading think tanks in Japan), Senior Research Fellow Futoshi Matsumoto and Research Fellow Junichi Fukuda. The meeting was attended by Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes...
The Razumkov Centre participated in the Riga Conference 2014
On 12-13 September, Valeriya Klymenko, Expert of the Razumkov Centre, and James Sherr, Research Fellow of the Razumkov Centre and Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme of Chatham House, attended the Riga Conference 2014 – the ninth annual high-level meeting of local and global security policy-makers and experts in Riga,...
The special status of Donbas apparently was a part of the agreements in Minsk
The bills adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on the special status of some raions in Donbas and amnesty for those participating in the events in the CTO area on 16 September 2014 contradict both the Constitution of Ukraine and other legislation. Moreover, representatives of the so-called LPR and DNR currently have no intentions to comply with them but...
Russian “peacekeeping forces” symbol was found on the vehicles in Donbass
The Guardian has found more evidence of Russian military hardware operating inside Ukraine, spotting an armoured vehicle marked with the symbol of the Russian army’s “peacekeeping forces”. Their vehicle was marked in three places with a blue circle and the yellow Cyrillic letters MC – the Russian abbreviation for “peacekeeping forces”, the...
The political fate of Poroshenko will depend on price of the peace in Donbass
The war in eastern Ukraine has quietened, for now. Its disparate factions have as much reason to keep fighting as to put away their guns. But a ceasefire signed on September 5th in Minsk is so far mostly holding, the Economist writes. Deputy director general and director of political and legal programmes at the Razumkov Centre Yuriy Yakymenko...
Russia’s Baltic War
Having failed to check Russia’s desire to reconstitute its empire in Ukraine, the world now looks on as the Russian campaign in the Baltics picks up steam. The latest news is that of an Estonian agent apparently kidnapped from Estonia and charged with espionage in Russia. The aggregate total of the number of people who believe...
The wall at the Russian border won’t help guarantee the security of Ukraine
The length of the Ukrainian-Russian border is now 2,295km. Given the Russian aggression, Ukraine decided to build engineering structures with concrete fortifications, barbed wire, watchtowers, barriers with motion sensors and infrared cameras along the entire Russian border. The project is called „The Wall“, and it has already been approved in...
Putin took Crimea not without consent of the West
Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sunhurovskyi explained in his comment to the website Replika why the European Union and the United States of America had ailed to take decisive action so far to stop Russian military aggression in Ukraine. For Ukraine, part of whose territory has been annexed, and on the rest of which...
The volunteers battalions are very strong in Ukrainian society
The patriotic popular mood the volunteers exemplify puts Mr Poroshenko in a tight spot. Parliamentary elections loom in late October. Some Ukrainian experts expect battalion commanders with designs on political power to stand, the Economist writes. The battalions are “very strong in Ukrainian society”, says Mykola Sungurovskyi, director of...
Donetsk Prime Minister: Kiev Refuses to Coordinate Routes of Humanitarian Convoys
Kiev refuses to coordinate routes for the delivery of humanitarian aid, proposed by the self-proclaimed people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, Donetsk People’s Republic Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko said Monday. …read more Source: RIA...
